Speaker: Scott Stratten

Scott Stratten is the President of Un-Marketing. Formerly a national sales training manager and a Professor at the Sheridan College School of Business, he has been running his "UnAgency" for 8 years which has become the place companies like PepsiCo, Red Cross and Fidelity Investments come to when they need help guiding their way through the viral/social media and relationship marketing landscape.

He now has over 76,000 people follow his daily rantings on Twitter and was voted one of the top influencers on the site with over 200 million users. It's the only time he's felt comfortable being compared to Ashton Kutcher, P Diddy and Justin Bieber.

His book "UnMarketing: Stop Marketing. Start Engaging" became a national best-seller before it was released and was also just named one of the top business books of the year by 1-800-CEO READ.

Top Speaking Topics

Engagement 2.0 - Sales, marketing and customer service has changed incredibly over the past few years and engagement is king. It’s not “if” you’re customers are talking online, it’s “how often” and “where”. This session walks the audience through the landscape of online engagement both today and what’s coming tomorrow. The audience will have a much clearer picture of what tools will suit their needs and which ones to ignore. From your front-line employees, to angry customers online, the people doing the talking for your brand is no longer through a press release.

Social Currency - Social media isn’t a fad or one or two sites, it’s the way your past, present and future customers interact. Are you there with them? It’s not enough to just show-up, you need to build your social currency within certain platforms online to capitalize in social media. This session walks the audience through industry specific examples of what’s gone wrong, whose doing it right, and most importantly, how they can start creating social currency right away.

UnMarketing - Stop Marketing. Start Engaging.

The tried and true ways of marketing have turned into tired and old, not to mention ineffective. The ability to build relationships and be heard by your market has never been greater, but overwhelming when trying to determine what tools to use. This session covers both online and offline methods of staying in front of your target audience, so when they have the need to buy, they choose you. From social media, to traditional local events, there are proven ways to connect more than ever before and after this session you have the practical tools to implement the tactics right away.

Viral Marketing 2.0 - Word of mouth is a wonderful thing, but if you’re behind the times on how the word is spread, you (and your company) will be left behind. This session talks about the new way things go viral as well as what makes them work so well. It goes above and beyond the old “forwarded email” and goes over capturing momentum within social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and social bookmarking like Digg and Reddit. After creating online movies that have generated over 65 million views, as well as “homemade” style YouTube videos that get tens of thousands of views overnight, Scott walks the crowd through how he did it (including how he recently got www.Nooooooooooooooo.com to over 3 million visitors without spending a penny), what you have to avoid if you want to do it, and the keys to making it successful for you.